If you decide to use the powder method, assure it’s all down against the breech. Even with only five or ten grains you still have the chance of ringing the barrel if its only partially down. I have shot many a broken ramrod out of a barrel.
Founder
Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
WS
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